We use to consider Russia as a commodity state whose welfare was mainly based on extraction and export of hydrocarbons. Well, Russia has one of the biggest oil and natural gas endowments, virtually dominates at the European crude oil and natural gas markets and actively builds up export of oil...

This paper is about the bane of the Russian economy: rich oil and gas reserves, which hamper the implementation of structural economic reforms. Oil industry forms the backbone of the Russian economy playing a major role in ensuring revenues of the government budget and the country’s favorable...

This paper deals with forecasting of economic development of Russia for a medium-term perspective.

This paper describes a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for the Russian economy. It takes into account a high dependence of the national economy on the oil export. The model consists of three production sectors: tradable and non-tradable sectors and oil extraction sector. Oil...

This paper deals with assessment of the experience in industrial policy implementation in Russia, and a determination of the key lessons including an analysis of two examples of industrial policy – the nano-industry and the automotive industry. ?

This publication deals with the issue of innovative development. The author defines conditions which are able to promote or impede innovative development of firms in Russia, offers classification of institutional factors of innovative development of firms and corresponding set of measures which...

The present financial crisis is a further link in the chain of crises widely described in economics literature. As recently as in the 1990s the global economy was affected by a number of crises which had an impact on several whole groups of countries. In 1992-1993 several countries of the...

The past year was transitional from the crisis period to a normal development. Russia’s GDP increased 4% in 2010. GDP and industrial production nearly recovered by the end of 2010, reaching 97-99% of the values recorded in September 2008, as estimated by Rosstat. These values show that as...

The privatisation wave that spread all over the world in the 1980s at last reached the shores of Russia in the 1990s and near the bastions of the administrative system it came to rest in a rather indecisive way. If in the 1980s the issue of privatisation was of real interest only for a narrow...

The core events which took place last year and which are related to the issues under consideration are the approval of a new three year privatisation programme for 2014–2016, including corporate control of market transactions associated with Rosneft and Gazprom, as well as the restructuring of...